Author: Tha1n0nlYVoYGirl
Title: Hue and Cry
Written between: 5 April 2002 and 9 May 2002
Modified between: 4 October 2002 and 5 March 2003
AN: Set immediately after "Day Of Honor". A strange species has been aboard Voyager while
B'Elanna and Tom retrieved the warp core. AU story set instead of the events in
"Nemesis."
Author's note #2: Dialogue in between " and ". Thoughts and the retelling of other person's
words in between ' and '.
Story including:
Tom Paris
Harry Kim
B'Elanna Torres
Kathryn Janeway
Chakotay
Neelix
The Doctor
Naomi Wildman
The fine ship Voyager
DISCLAIMER: All above belongs to Paramount (www.paramount.com).
'Star Trek' created by Gene Roddenberry.
Spolier: Season 4 episode, "Day of Honor". The 3 first sentences taken directly from the show.
Stuff that belongs to me:
Scrich
Bral
Ecbel Ecbal
The Sprai-koo homeworld
The Sprai-koo people
The Taali people
The shuttles
**Dedicated to all devoted Fanfiction writers out there. ~ Keep on writing!**
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
**
HUE AND CRY
***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I have to tell you the truth."
"The truth about what?"
"I - I- I love you."
B'Elanna's words tortured Tom as he manually opened the shuttlebay hatch, the only thing
between the shuttle and open space.
He wanted so badly to tell her that he felt the same way, but he couldn't. Not yet.
***
The following morning Harry pressed the chime at Captain Kathryn Janeway's door.
"Good morning, Harry," she greeted when he stepped in.
"However, if you want to complain about extra duty assignments, you can leave again.
Everyone will have to pull double shifts until we're through this, according to Naomi, creepy
space."
Harry prepared to explain why he was there, "Tom won't."
The truth, wrapped up, but yet the truth.
The Captain grew suspicious, her eyes narrowed for a while, thoughtful.
"What do you mean?"
"I can't find Tom anywhere. He's not at the Holodeck, not in his quarters, not in Sickbay, not
at the Bridge, not in the Mess, he's not responding to hails, and the computer can't locate him.
There's also a shuttle missing. 'Cochran' 2. Do the math, Captain."
"Are you implying that Tom ran away tonight?" She was shocked, disbelief so hard it turned into sarcasm.
"It doesn't look better."
"Meet me in Sickbay as soon as you can, and bring B'Elanna. We've got no time to think."
***
Harry immediately hurried to Engineering, to get his friend. A tricky task, according to that her
shift just had begun.
Getting her out of her precious work after twenty minutes on duty, wasn't exactly the easiest
thing to do. However, Harry succeeded. He only told the Chief Engineer three words. "Tom is
missing."
***
A moment later, in Sickbay, the Doctor considered himself informed.
"You have any idea about what might caused him to leave?" Janeway asked.
"Well, there's many possible reasons to his departure. The real reason knows only Tom. When
we find that particular reason, we'll find Tom."
"How?"
The Doctor wore his 'professional face' and ignored B'Elanna's question.
"Reasons such as...?" The half- Klingon continued, this time, the Doctor answered.
"A fight, a break-up, a misdeed, traumatic memories, or he simply didn't like it here." The Doctor
sighed at his own misconceptions.
"Doctor, would you let me strike out the 'reasons' that I don't think we should count on?" Harry cut in.
"Sure, Mr. Kim. Go ahead, the more you don't find possibly, the closer we get to the real
reason."
"How do we know that that's the real one then? It might very well be another. As you said
yourself; the only one who knows is Tom!"
"Lieutenant Torres... you interrupted Mr. Kim." The Doctor said varily.
B'Elanna looked angry, Harry took a deep breath, preparing to talk non-stop.
"Okay, here it goes. I'll begin with your first possibility." He cleared his throat.
"Tom's stronger than that. If he'd cared that much about fights, he'd left long ago. Right after
joining in. I mean, all the Maquis fought with him,"
He shot a certain Maquis a look.
"Some Starfleet personnel did too. The second one; Tom didn't have a girlfriend, so he can't
be devastated by a break-up. And running for the sake of a misdeed, I don't think so.
He stands for his actions, how stupid they might be. And as late as a month ago he told me that
Voyager was the best home he'd ever had. Then the only thing left I traumatic memories."
"I agree with you, Harry. Tom wouldn't go because of such--"
A commbadge chirping interrupted Kathryn.
::Tuvok to Janeway::
::Janeway here. Go ahead::
::We've located the shuttle::
:: Where?::
:: At an I-class planet 200 000 kilometers ahead, the homeworld of the Sprai-koo::
::Not the one's we tried to make business with just yesterday?::
::I'm afraid so, Captain::
::Any sign of Tom?::
::Negative::
::All right. Janeway out::
"Harry?"
"Captain?"
"You want to see your friend?"
"Of course!"
"Then take the 'Coulee' and head for the Sprai-koo homeworld."
Harry smiled widely. It wasn't every day he got such a mission on his shoulders.
"Yes, Captain."
"Doctor?" B'Elanna asked. "Can a sudden message regarding a friend's deadly disease or,
let's say, an unexpected confession of love, be other possible reasons why Tom Paris left?"
She scraped a little with the toe of her boot.
"Yes, it might very well be."
B'Elanna moaned.
Harry grabbed his friends left arm. "Why, Maquis? Are you sick?"
She shook of his hand, the sudden concern in his eyes almost scared her.
"I'm just exploring other possibilities."
"Oh." Harry looked embarrassed away. 'He must have heard the sheer desperation in his voice
too,' Torres thought. She turned to the Captain.
"May I assist Harry at this mission?"
Janeway placed a hand on her Chief Engineer's shoulder.
"I hoped you'd say that, B'Elanna."
She did hope so, but yet, for a brief moment Kathryn hesitated. She didn't really want to send
her best engineer away on a dangerous rescue, along with one of her best Ops tactics, to get
her mostly skilled pilot back from his crazy desertion.
And rescued, that was exactly what she thought Tom Paris needed to get. The brown skinned,
fair-haired Sprai-koo had proved to be both violent and hostile during their short meeting.
"Then I can go."
"Of course you can."
Janeway tried to look like she'd never considered anything else. Receiving the Doctor's weird
looks, she understood that her brief hesitation had unveiled her. This rescue mission was going
to be dangerous, and now both Kathryn Janeway, the EMH, Harry Kim and B'Elanna Torres
knew it.
***
Title: Hue and Cry
Written between: 5 April 2002 and 9 May 2002
Modified between: 4 October 2002 and 5 March 2003
AN: Set immediately after "Day Of Honor". A strange species has been aboard Voyager while
B'Elanna and Tom retrieved the warp core. AU story set instead of the events in
"Nemesis."
Author's note #2: Dialogue in between " and ". Thoughts and the retelling of other person's
words in between ' and '.
Story including:
Tom Paris
Harry Kim
B'Elanna Torres
Kathryn Janeway
Chakotay
Neelix
The Doctor
Naomi Wildman
The fine ship Voyager
DISCLAIMER: All above belongs to Paramount (www.paramount.com).
'Star Trek' created by Gene Roddenberry.
Spolier: Season 4 episode, "Day of Honor". The 3 first sentences taken directly from the show.
Stuff that belongs to me:
Scrich
Bral
Ecbel Ecbal
The Sprai-koo homeworld
The Sprai-koo people
The Taali people
The shuttles
**Dedicated to all devoted Fanfiction writers out there. ~ Keep on writing!**
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
**
HUE AND CRY
***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I have to tell you the truth."
"The truth about what?"
"I - I- I love you."
B'Elanna's words tortured Tom as he manually opened the shuttlebay hatch, the only thing
between the shuttle and open space.
He wanted so badly to tell her that he felt the same way, but he couldn't. Not yet.
***
The following morning Harry pressed the chime at Captain Kathryn Janeway's door.
"Good morning, Harry," she greeted when he stepped in.
"However, if you want to complain about extra duty assignments, you can leave again.
Everyone will have to pull double shifts until we're through this, according to Naomi, creepy
space."
Harry prepared to explain why he was there, "Tom won't."
The truth, wrapped up, but yet the truth.
The Captain grew suspicious, her eyes narrowed for a while, thoughtful.
"What do you mean?"
"I can't find Tom anywhere. He's not at the Holodeck, not in his quarters, not in Sickbay, not
at the Bridge, not in the Mess, he's not responding to hails, and the computer can't locate him.
There's also a shuttle missing. 'Cochran' 2. Do the math, Captain."
"Are you implying that Tom ran away tonight?" She was shocked, disbelief so hard it turned into sarcasm.
"It doesn't look better."
"Meet me in Sickbay as soon as you can, and bring B'Elanna. We've got no time to think."
***
Harry immediately hurried to Engineering, to get his friend. A tricky task, according to that her
shift just had begun.
Getting her out of her precious work after twenty minutes on duty, wasn't exactly the easiest
thing to do. However, Harry succeeded. He only told the Chief Engineer three words. "Tom is
missing."
***
A moment later, in Sickbay, the Doctor considered himself informed.
"You have any idea about what might caused him to leave?" Janeway asked.
"Well, there's many possible reasons to his departure. The real reason knows only Tom. When
we find that particular reason, we'll find Tom."
"How?"
The Doctor wore his 'professional face' and ignored B'Elanna's question.
"Reasons such as...?" The half- Klingon continued, this time, the Doctor answered.
"A fight, a break-up, a misdeed, traumatic memories, or he simply didn't like it here." The Doctor
sighed at his own misconceptions.
"Doctor, would you let me strike out the 'reasons' that I don't think we should count on?" Harry cut in.
"Sure, Mr. Kim. Go ahead, the more you don't find possibly, the closer we get to the real
reason."
"How do we know that that's the real one then? It might very well be another. As you said
yourself; the only one who knows is Tom!"
"Lieutenant Torres... you interrupted Mr. Kim." The Doctor said varily.
B'Elanna looked angry, Harry took a deep breath, preparing to talk non-stop.
"Okay, here it goes. I'll begin with your first possibility." He cleared his throat.
"Tom's stronger than that. If he'd cared that much about fights, he'd left long ago. Right after
joining in. I mean, all the Maquis fought with him,"
He shot a certain Maquis a look.
"Some Starfleet personnel did too. The second one; Tom didn't have a girlfriend, so he can't
be devastated by a break-up. And running for the sake of a misdeed, I don't think so.
He stands for his actions, how stupid they might be. And as late as a month ago he told me that
Voyager was the best home he'd ever had. Then the only thing left I traumatic memories."
"I agree with you, Harry. Tom wouldn't go because of such--"
A commbadge chirping interrupted Kathryn.
::Tuvok to Janeway::
::Janeway here. Go ahead::
::We've located the shuttle::
:: Where?::
:: At an I-class planet 200 000 kilometers ahead, the homeworld of the Sprai-koo::
::Not the one's we tried to make business with just yesterday?::
::I'm afraid so, Captain::
::Any sign of Tom?::
::Negative::
::All right. Janeway out::
"Harry?"
"Captain?"
"You want to see your friend?"
"Of course!"
"Then take the 'Coulee' and head for the Sprai-koo homeworld."
Harry smiled widely. It wasn't every day he got such a mission on his shoulders.
"Yes, Captain."
"Doctor?" B'Elanna asked. "Can a sudden message regarding a friend's deadly disease or,
let's say, an unexpected confession of love, be other possible reasons why Tom Paris left?"
She scraped a little with the toe of her boot.
"Yes, it might very well be."
B'Elanna moaned.
Harry grabbed his friends left arm. "Why, Maquis? Are you sick?"
She shook of his hand, the sudden concern in his eyes almost scared her.
"I'm just exploring other possibilities."
"Oh." Harry looked embarrassed away. 'He must have heard the sheer desperation in his voice
too,' Torres thought. She turned to the Captain.
"May I assist Harry at this mission?"
Janeway placed a hand on her Chief Engineer's shoulder.
"I hoped you'd say that, B'Elanna."
She did hope so, but yet, for a brief moment Kathryn hesitated. She didn't really want to send
her best engineer away on a dangerous rescue, along with one of her best Ops tactics, to get
her mostly skilled pilot back from his crazy desertion.
And rescued, that was exactly what she thought Tom Paris needed to get. The brown skinned,
fair-haired Sprai-koo had proved to be both violent and hostile during their short meeting.
"Then I can go."
"Of course you can."
Janeway tried to look like she'd never considered anything else. Receiving the Doctor's weird
looks, she understood that her brief hesitation had unveiled her. This rescue mission was going
to be dangerous, and now both Kathryn Janeway, the EMH, Harry Kim and B'Elanna Torres
knew it.
***